... in the oil production industry continue to expose the shortcomings of yesterday's products. This, in turn, stimulates research to improve product performance and characteristics. Biocidal products are no exception to this rule and this paper reviews technical developments which have taken place, throughout...

.... corrosion inhibitor transport chemical efficiency oil production INTRODUCTION During the production of oil and gas, water (or brine) is typically produced as an undesirable byproduct. When brine is produced in the presence of carbon dioxide, carbonic acid species may occur in solution resulting...

.... The delivery depends upon both chemical parameters such as density, viscosity, and surface tension as well as flush parameters including volume and rate. corrosion inhibitor batch application oil production fluid flow mass transport INTRODUCTION During the production of oil and gas, water (or brine...

... electrochemistry production chemicals oil production wet gas hydrate inhibitor INTRODUCTION With increasingly severe producing conditions encountered as deeper and deeper waters are explored, control and maintenance of oil and gas production are critical issues. Integrity aspects including corrosion, and flow...

... pitting oil production gas production INTRODUCTION Carbon dioxide gas is often encountered in deep oil and gas wells and in wells employing enhanced oil recovery techniques based on CO₂ injection into reservoirs. Carbon steels are preferred over higher cost corrosion resistant alloys...

... as a polymerization initiator. The properties of the resulting co and terpolymers enable a wide range of applications, e.g. water treatment, detergents, oil production, reverse osmosis, sea water desalination. Laboratory studies were conducted to profile the performance of acrolein based scale inhibitors...

...scale inhibitors squeeze treatment oil production polymers barium sulfate adsorption biodegradability INTRODUCTION Water flooding is the most commonly used technique to maintain oil production on offshore platforms. In this process, sea water is injected under pressure into the reservoir via...

... steel 13Cr steel Uns S42000 API 5CT corrosion CO₂ brine oil production gas production application limits INTRODUCTION Chromium alloyed steels of the martensitic type, in particular 13Cr UNS S42000 steel complying with the API 5 CT specification, are increasingly being used for wet...

...-emergent biocide was significantly active. hydrogen sulphide oil production biocide souring tetrakishydroxymethylphosphonium sulphate trishydroxymethyl phosphine oxide sulphate reducing bacteria INTRODUCTION In a previous paper ( ref. 1 ) we described how that a biocide ⁽¹⁾ based...

... to demonstrate the effectiveness of internal plastic coatings specifically designed for oil production, gas production, and enhanced recovery conditions susceptible to corrosive attack by CO₂. CO₂ corrosion internal plastic coatings CO₂ injection water injection oil...

... of calculations based on published equations for the treatment of the pH effect on "sweet" corrosion. Carbon steel corrosion oil production formation water carbon dioxide corrosion monitoring INTRODUCTION Table 1 Formation water analysis (mg/l) A B Na⁺ 16520 17250 Ca²...

...^-, CO₃^2- and NaCl. corrosion electrochemistry passivity carbon steel oil production gas production INTRODUCTION Much experimental work has been devoted to the study of the corrosion of carbon steels in aqueous CO₂ solutions. One reason for this is the extensive use of such material...